Readily Quotes

329 quotes by 285 authors

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available. — Stephen L. Carter
People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy… — C. Wright Mills
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get… — C S Forester
A strong currency means that American consumers and businesses can buy imported goods and services more cheaply and that inflation and interest rates will be… — Robert Rubin
The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or react to more… — Robert Warshow
Having the right perspective is tough when youâ€™re alone. Surround yourself with people who will help you see things you cannot readily see. — Clifton Anderson
But for all those who don't want the Queen there are easily as many who don't want a President and even more who certainly would… — Dalton Camp
If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our women. For if… — Edwin A. Abbott
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of… — Fred Brooks
Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water. — Steven Johnson
A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on… — Jeff Greenfield
A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to maxima and minima, thus showing that there is… — Henrietta Swan Leavitt
From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral distinctions arise from… — David Hume
Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily. — Maurice Maeterlinck
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. — Thomas Love Peacock
Liebig taught the world two great lessons. The first was that in order to teach chemistry it was necessary that students should be taken into… — Ira Remsen
I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties,… — Jacques Barzun
When you are insecure, it turns people off. To spend money, people have to give away a part of their security. When they make the… — Stuart Wilde
If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and… — Frederick Law Olmsted
That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar. — Robert Harris

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